Reflections: Patterns for Reading and Writing - Softcover

McWhorter, Kathleen T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031248688X ISBN 13: 9780312486884

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 2013

Synopsis

This innovative modes-based reader by reading expert Kathleen McWhorter supports an integrated approach to reading and writing with unique scaffolded instruction that guides students through comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and written response skills students will need to be successful in college. Compelling reading selections drawn from widely taught academic disciplines let students practice the work theyre expected to do in other college courses.

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About the Author

Kathleen T. McWhorter is professor emerita of humanities and former director of the Learning Skills Center at Niagara County Community College. She has also been on the faculty of the State University College at Buffalo. She is the author of a number of books on reading and writing skills for developmental and freshmen-level students, including Expressways: Writing Scenarios, Paragraphs and Essays, Second Edition ( 2009); Pathways: Writing Scenarios, Sentences to Paragraphs, Second Edition ( 2010); The Writers Selections, Fifth Edition (2008); Academic Reading, Seventh Edition (2010); Efficient and Flexible Reading, Ninth Edition (2011); Active Reading Skills, Second Edition (2008); and Reading Across the Disciplines: College Reading And Beyond, Fourth Edition (2009). She has also authored a composition reader, Seeing the Pattern: Readings for Successful Writing (Bedford/St. Martins, 2006) and coauthored, with Jane Aaron, The Successful Writers Handbook (2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031248688X
• ISBN 13: 9780312486884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 746